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Europe Votes to Walk Away From FIFA Tournaments, and Japan Starts Doing the Maths
FIFA wants to spin the World Cup into a subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise and sell 20% of a $20bn valuation to outside investors, raising up to $4.2bn. UEFA's 55 member associations met and voted unanimously not to enter FIFA competitions if the plan goes ahead. Japanese threads split between joking that a Europe-free World Cup finally gives Japan a shot at the title and arguing that football is about to fragment into rival bodies the way boxing did.